A
LIST OF BAILLIES,
PROVOSTS & LORD PROVOSTS
OF THE BURGH OF DUNDEE, SCOTLAND

This
table of information is extracted from the publication, "City of Dundee,
Scotland, A Chronicle of the City's Office Bearers, Chambers, Regalia, Castles
and Twin Cities". The purpose of making this table available here was for
the benefit of readers simply looking for the information contained therein. The
full booklet may be obtained from The City Chambers, City Square, Dundee,
Scotland, but (a previous edition) can also be seen in PDF format online at www.dundeecity.gov.uk/publications/heraldic.pdf Readers should appreciate the effort expended by council staff and others to extract the
information in this list from many old documents held at Dundee
City Archives.

LIST
OF BAILLIES, PROVOSTS & LORD PROVOSTS OF THE BURGH OF DUNDEE

The
minutes of the Town Council of Dundee which are still in existence do
not bear an earlier date than 1552, but as the names of Provosts and
Baillies were usually entered in the 'Lockit-Book' over every name of an
admitted Burgess, it is thus possible to form a more complete historical
list of Office Holders for the City. Where dates before 1482 omit any
mention of a Provost, the name of the Principal Baillie has been listed.

(Numbered
references appear at the foot of the table.)

1286

Radulfo, Magister de Dundee

1330

Richard de Fordoun

Senior Provost

1341

Alan de Balmossy

Baillie

1341

Peter de Haia

Baillie

1341

William de Both

Baillie

1341

Richard de Fordoun

Junior Baillie

1342

Nicholas de Both

Provost

1342

Alexander de Scralyn

Baillie

1343

Stephen Forbour

Baillie

1360

Patrick Parker

Baillie

1362

William de Harden

Baillie

1362

Thomas of Angus

Baillie

1364

William de Harden

Provost

1365

Andrew Parker

Baillie

1365

Andrew Clerk

Baillie

1366

Alexander Skyrmechour 1

Constable, Provost

1366

William de Inverpefre

Baillie

1367

Andrew Parker

Baillie

1369

William de Harden

Provost

1375

Galfrid Ayre

Baillie

1376

Richard Spalding

Baillie

1377

Laurence Brow

Baillie

1377

Robert Bell

Baillie

1379

Thomas Clerk

Baillie

1380

Robert Templeman

Baillie

1381

Robert Bell

Baillie

1382

Hugh de Jedworth

Baillie

1383

Robert Bell

Baillie

1384

Robert Templeman

Baillie

1384

David de Aberkirdor

Baillie

1384

John de Mortuo Mari 2

Baillie

1387

Richard Scott

Baillie

1388

Robert Templeman

Baillie

1389

Hugh de Jedworth

Baillie

1390

Robert Templeman

Baillie

1391

Patrick de Inverpefre

Baillie

1392

Richard Scott

Baillie

1393

William Clerk

Baillie

1393

John Young

Baillie

1395

Richard Scott

Baillie

1396

Robert Templeman

Baillie

1397

Richard Scott

Baillie

1398

Robert de Guthry

Baillie

1401

John de Lyndesei

Baillie

1402

Richard Scott

Baillie

1403

Robert de Guthry 3

Baillie

1404

Robert Templeman

Baillie

1405

Richard Scott

Baillie

1406 - 07

Adam Clerk

Baillie

1409

Richard Scott

Baillie

1410

John Mortuo Mari 2

Baillie

1410

John Andrewson

Baillie

1412 - 14

Richard Scott

Baillie & Clerk of Coquet

1415 - 18

James Elgy

Baillie

1420

Galfrid de Disart

Baillie

1421

Duncan Parcare

Baillie

1421

Thomas Clerk

Baillie

1421

William de Blare

Baillie

1422 - 24

Duncan Parcare

Baillie

1425 - 28

Galfrid de Disart

Baillie

1429

William de Strathechyn

Provost

1429

William Plater

Baillie

1431

William Playfair

Baillie

1434

Simon de Ferne

Baillie

1435

Alexander de Blare

Baillie

1435

David de Aberkirdor

Baillie

1435

David de Spalding

Baillie

1438

Simon de Ferne

Baillie

1442

David Spalding

Baillie

1443

William de Straithain

Provost

1444 - 45

Walter Grynlaw

Baillie

1446

William de Straithain

Baillie

1447 - 48

James de Fothringhame

Baillie

1449

Robert de Balmanach

Baillie

1450

James de Fothringhame

Baillie

1451

Walter Grenelaw

Baillie

1453

James de Fothringhame

Baillie

1454

Robert Deuchre

Baillie

1454

Henry de Fothringhame of Pourie

Provost

1455

Malcolm de Deuchre

Baillie

1456

David Guthrie

Baillie

1457

Walter Grinlaw

Baillie

1459

David Spalding

Baillie

1459

Thomas Spalding

Provost

1460

William de Strathauchtyne 4

Provost

1461

John Scrymgeour

Provost

1462

Robert de Deuchir

Baillie

1463

David Aberkirdor

Provost

1463 - 64

James Blare

Provost

1464 - 66

James de Fothringhame

Baillie

1466

Robert Graham

Provost

1467

Malcolm Guthrie

Baillie

1468

David Aberkirdor

Baillie

1469

Andrew Moncurr

Baillie

1469 - 70

John Hay

Provost

1470

Malcolm Guthrie

Provost

1472 – 75

Malcolm Guthrie

Baillie

1476

James Fullerton

Provost

1477

David Rollok

Baillie

1478 - 79

Robert Graham of Fintry

Provost

1480

Malcolm Guthrie

Baillie

1481

James Fothringhame

Baillie

5
After this entry, the names are those of Provosts only.

1482

David Rollok

Provost

1483

Robert Graham of Fintry

1483 - 84

David Aberkirdor

1485

James Rollok

1492 - 97

James Scrymgeour,
Constable of Dundee

1497 - 98

Robert Graham of Fintry

1504

James Rollok

1509

Alexander Ogilvie

1513

Lord Gray

1513

Andrew Abercrombie

1513 - 14

Earl of Crauford

1514 - 16

James Rollok

1516 - 20

James Scrymgeour,
Constable of Dundee

1520 - 23

Alexander Ogilvie

1523 - 25

William Carmichael of Carpow

1526 - 28

John Scrymgeour of Glaister

1528 - 30

James Scrymgeour,
Constable of Dundee

1531 - 32

John Barrie

1543 - 44

Walter Scrymgeour of Glaswell

1544 - 45

Robert Myln

1550

James Dog of Dunrobbene

1551 - 65

James Halyburton 6

1565 - 66

Earl of Crauford

1566 - 86

James Halyburton

1586 - 90

James Scrymgeour of Dudhop

1590 - 92

James Forrester

1592 - 93

James Auchinlek

1593 - 1609

Sir James Scrymgeour

1609 - 14

William Duncan

1614 - 26

William Auchinlek

1626 - 31

Thomas Halyburton

1631 - 33

Thomas Auchinlek

1633 - 37

Thomas Davidson

1637 - 43

James Fletcher

1643 - 46

James Piersoun

1646 - 50

William Kinneris 7

1650 - 58

Thomas Mudy

1658 - 59

Sir Thomas Mudy

1659 - 66

Alexander Wedderburn

1666 - 67

George Fletcher

1667 - 69

George Brown

1669 - 70

John Tarbet

1670 - 72

Alexander Watson

1672 - 77

George Brown

1677 - 81

Alexander
Wedderburn of Easter Powrie

1681 - 85

Alexander Duncan

1685 - 86

James Fletcher

1686

Election of
Magistrates Prohibited by the King

1686 - 87

Major General John
Graham of Claverhouse (Appointed
by Royal Warrant) 8

1687 - 88

James Fletcher

1688 - 89

Major General John
Graham of Claverhouse

1689 - 98

James Fletcher

1698 - 1700

Alexander Blair

1700 - 02

John Scrymgeour

1702 - 04

John Duncan

1704 - 06

Alexander Blair

1706 - 08

George Yeaman

1708 - 10

Alexander Blair

1710 - 12

George Yeaman

1712 - 14

Magister Henry Guthrie

1714 - 16

Alexander Ballingall

1716 - 17

John Scrymgeour 9

1717 - 19

Magister Alexander
Duncan of Lundie

1719 - 21

John Scrymgeour

1721 - 23

Thomas Bower

1723 - 25

David Maxwell

1725 - 27

George Ramsay

1727 - 28

Alexander Ferrier

1728 - 31

James Fairweather

1731 - 32

Alexander Robertson

1732 - 35

James Fairweather

1735 - 36

Patrick Maxwell

1736 - 38

Andrew Wardropper

1738 - 41

John Donaldson

1741 - 42

Alexander Robertson

1742 - 44

Patrick Yeaman of Blacklaw

1744 - 47

Alexander Duncan of Lundie

1747 - 48

Patrick Yeaman of Blacklaw

1748 - 50

George Yeaman of Balbeuchly

1750 - 53

Patrick Yeaman of Blacklaw

1753 - 54

Andrew Wardropper

1754 - 57

Patrick Yeaman

1757 - 58

Andrew Wardropper

1758 - 61

George Yeaman

1761 - 62

Patrick Yeaman

1762 - 64

John Halyburton

1764 - 66

John Barclay

1766 - 68

Patrick Maxwell

1768 - 70

George Maxwell

1770 - 72

Patrick Maxwell

1772 - 74

Henry Geekie

1774 - 76

Patrick Maxwell

1776 - 78

George Maxwell of Balmyle

1778 - 80

Henry Geekie

1780 - 82

Patrick Maxwell

1782 - 84

John Pitcairn

1784 - 86

Patrick Maxwell

1786 - 88

John Pitcairn

1788 - 90

Alexander Riddoch

1790 - 92

James Johnston

1792 - 94

Alexander Riddoch

1794 - 96

Alexander Thoms

1796 - 98

Alexander Riddoch

1798 - 1800

Alexander Thoms

1800 - 02

Alexander Riddoch

1802 - 04

John Guild

1804 - 07

Alexander Riddoch

1807 - 08

John Guild

1808 - 10

Alexander Riddoch

1810 - 12

John Guild

1812 - 14

Alexander Riddoch

1814 - 16

John Guild

1816 - 18

Alexander Riddoch

1818 - 20

Patrick Anderson

1820 - 22

David Brown

1822 - 24

Patrick Anderson

1824 - 26

David Brown

1826 - 28

Alexander Balfour

1828 - 30

Thomas Bell

1831

Robert Jobson

1831 - 33

William Lindsay

1833 - 39

Alexander Kay

1839 - 41

William Hackney

1841

William Johnstone

1841 - 44

Alexander Lawson

1844 - 47

James Brown

1847 - 53

Patrick Hunter Thoms

1853 - 56

George Rough

1856 - 58

John Ewan

1858

David Rollo

1858 - 61

David Jobson

1861 - 67

Charles Parker

1867 - 69

William Hay

1869 - 72

James Yeaman 10

1872 - 75

James Cox

1875 - 78

William Robertson

1878 - 81

William Brownlee

1881 - 84

Alexander Hay Moncur

1884 - 87

Hugh Ballingall

1887 - 90

William Hunter

11
From this date on, all names listed are 'Lord Provosts'.

1890 - 93

Alexander
Mathewson

1893 - 96

Sir James Low, Bart

1896 - 99

Henry McGrady

1899 - 1902

William Hunter

1902 - 05

Charles Barrie

1905 - 08

William Longair

1908 - 14

Sir James Urquhart

1914 - 20

Sir William Don

1920 - 23

Sir Alexander Spence

1923 - 29

Sir William High

1929 - 32

George Anderson Johnston

1932 - 35

William Huntley Buist

1935 - 40

Sir John Phin

1940 - 46

Sir Garnet Wilson

1946 - 49

Archibald Powrie

1949

John Campsie Adamson

1949 - 52

Richard Fenton

1952 - 54

William Black

1954 - 60

William Hughes

1960 - 68

Maurice McManus

1968 - 70

Alexander MacKenzie

1970 - 73

William K. Fitzgerald

1973 - 75

Thomas W. Moore

1975 - 77

Charles D. P. Farquhar

1977 - 80

Henry W. C. Vaughan

1980 - 84

James P. Gowans

1984 - 92

Thomas Mitchell

1992 - 95

Thomas M. McDonald

1995 - 96

Norman A. McGowan

1996 - 99

Mervyn J. Rolfe

1999
- 2001

Helen Wright 12

2001
-

John Ross Letford

1
An early form of the name Scrymgeour.

2
An early form of the name Mortimer.

3
In the Exchequer Roll, the remark reads "Robert de Guthry was the
sole Baillie present, the other baillies died of the plague."

4
An early form of the name Strachan.

5
After this entry, the names are those of Provosts only.

6
Killed at the Siege of Leith.

7
An early form of the name Kinnear.

8
Known as 'Bonnie Dundee' - he was killed at the Battle of Killiecrankie,
1689.

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